Just picked up my new Storm2 last night and I noticed that it read the 16GB Micro SD card to have only 14.8gb? I realize some space always gets taken but 1.2gb worth? anyone here that could shed some light on this issue??:17:

10-29-2009, 10:05 AM

jnepsa

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Originally Posted by larz

Just picked up my new Storm2 last night and I noticed that it read the 16GB Micro SD card to have only 14.8gb? I realize some space always gets taken but 1.2gb worth? anyone here that could shed some light on this issue??:17:

I am sure that is normal i think my 8gb card would read only 7.2GB available when it was blank

10-29-2009, 10:11 AM

manofice

sounds normal. It's like when you pop a 80 gig hdd in a computer and you only get like 70ish

10-29-2009, 10:16 AM

toytooii

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Originally Posted by larz

Just picked up my new Storm2 last night and I noticed that it read the 16GB Micro SD card to have only 14.8gb? I realize some space always gets taken but 1.2gb worth? anyone here that could shed some light on this issue??:17:

This is correct. There's nothing wrong with your card. A gigabyte is actually 1,073,741,824 bytes (not 1,000,000,000). So, a card labeled "16GB" is in reality ~14.9GB.
(16,000,000,000/1,073,741,824 =14.9
In other words, the device is using the real definition of a gigabyte to calculate the value being displayed.

10-29-2009, 10:22 AM

BBphreak

Explaination....Totally Normal

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Originally Posted by larz

Just picked up my new Storm2 last night and I noticed that it read the 16GB Micro SD card to have only 14.8gb? I realize some space always gets taken but 1.2gb worth? anyone here that could shed some light on this issue??:17:

This is totally normal. The advertised size of memory cards/hard drives is the unformatted capacity of the drive/card. When you format the card the File Allocation Table (FAT/FAT32/NTFS) AKA the file system- takes up the difference in space that you see.

Manufacturers sell the drive based on 1GB=1000MB, 1MB=1000kb 1KB=1000bytes....and so on.

Thanks guys, I hate false advertising! but If this phone is up to it, I'll end up buying a 32gb card and dumping my entire music library onto it!:22:

10-29-2009, 11:04 AM

Seanren78

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Originally Posted by BBphreak

This is totally normal. The advertised size of memory cards/hard drives is the unformatted capacity of the drive/card. When you format the card the File Allocation Table (FAT/FAT32/NTFS) AKA the file system- takes up the difference in space that you see.

Manufacturers sell the drive based on 1GB=1000MB, 1MB=1000kb 1KB=1000bytes....and so on.